This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Subramoney Iyer, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

Children played at a park during summer vacation in Santiago, Chile. Bolivians held a ceremony to elect representatives for Chuta, Pepino and Chola — characters for Carnival.

Chants of “Om Linga, Om Linga” resonated as barefoot Hindu pilgrims, many balancing offering-filled baskets and clay pitchers ...

This display of Indian women’s most idiosyncratic garment — known as the sari — is, however, seen mostly when it is sun-dried right on the sandy banks at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and ...

Tracy Glantz [email protected] South Carolina dropped to No. 6 in this week’s AP Top 25 Poll ... Michael Sauls is The State’s South Carolina women’s basketball reporter.

As if that wasn’t enough to build the mood, the women’s selection committee released its first top 16 reveal. There are two weeks before conference tournaments are set and the real fun begins.

How will that be reflected in the next AP Top-25. It was an eventful week in women's college basketball. No. 1 ranked UCLA lost its first game, but that wasn't even the most shocking loss of the week.

Notre Dame is the new No. 1 team in this week’s Associated Press women’s basketball poll top 25 poll. It marks Notre Dame’s first No. 1 ranking in six years and the first time the Irish ...

The UConn women's basketball team turned back the clock to the days when it would go into a sold-out building for a Top 5 or Top 10 road matchup and overwhelm its opponent. Sunday's 87-58 rout ...

As if that wasn’t enough to build the mood, the women’s selection committee released ... experienced a brief early January stay in the AP poll. Duke (20-5, 11-2 ACC) at Notre Dame (22-2 ...

Notre Dame is the new No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, ascending to the top spot Monday for the first time since 2019. The Fighting Irish replaced UCLA, which lost ...